You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.